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she noticed – they were growing out. She had to be a bit careful with them, because they weren’t supposed to have dyed hair at school. But she had really thick, wavy hair, and she only dyed the underneath bits, so she got away with it as long as she was careful tying her hair back for PE.
The monks would have herb gardens too, she read, because the only hospitals at that time were the ones in the monasteries. Poppy blinked. She loved using alternative remedies, but her mum did give her Calpol if she was feeling really awful. It might be a bit scary to have nothing but herbs...
Poppy looked at the entry sheet for the school garden and carefully copied the diagram of the real garden space into her sketch book. For a garden like one of those medieval ones, she’d need to be really careful about fitting it into the space – no artistic guessing. Once she’d drawn it out, she chewed the end of her pencil, looking at the space. How was she going to split it up? The monks had sections for different herbs in the hospital gardens, and different kinds of fruit and vegetables in their kitchen gardens. And the beautiful chateau garden seemed to have everything. Vines, even.
Plants that smell nice, she scribbled along the 24